News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Vernon Stroman (40, St. Augustine) has pleaded guilty to violating the anti-kickback statute. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: Defendant previously deported four times. BOSTON - A Colombian national was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for drug and immigration offenses. Leonardo Franco, 45, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman to 18 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Beverly Hills man who has a long history of swindling investors and admitted most recently to participating in a scheme involving bogus gold contracts - and giving fake gold bars as “collateral" to victims - has been sentenced to 96 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: Caused Tax Loss of Approximately $9 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for passport fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: Harrisonburg, VIRGINIA - A Winchester man, who filmed himself sexually exploiting two minor children, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Harrisonburg, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: WAYCROSS, GA - Two federal indictments were unsealed yesterday and today which charged 36 South Georgia, North Florida and California residents with conspiring to traffic large amounts of methamphetamine, cocaine and other drugs. The indictments follow a joint federal and state investigation into violent...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Every national park tells the story of someone who had a dream. Whether that story is about the original American dream of freedom and democracy, the dreams of people who worked to instill change in society, or the drive of the American people to always pursue a better life, parks find a way to remind people of the power of dreaming.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: CEDAR CITY, Utah - As part of its mission to manage public lands for multiple uses, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be removing excess wild horses from areas within and outside the Bible Springs Complex in Iron and Beaver counties beginning Aug. 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A total of six out of eight Houston residents arrested for their alleged involvement in the July 25 armed robbery of First Community Credit Union in Katy are set to appear today in federal court, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota man convicted of Conspiracy to Manufacture a Controlled Substance and Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, and a Parmelee, South Dakota woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, were sentenced on July 31, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX) today wrote to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma voicing their deep concerns regarding the recently submitted proposal from the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Victoriano Ruyan-Juarez (36), a Guatemalan national, to 18 months in federal prison for illegal reentry after deportation for a felony, and for failure to register as a sex offender, as required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: Virginia Man Sentenced to 360 Months for Production of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: A Lima woman was indicted for having a large amount of carfentanil, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: MOSES LAKE, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Ephrata Field Office has canceled its annual C.A.S.T. for Kids fishing event scheduled for Saturday, August 5 at Potholes Reservoir, due to triple-digit temperatures and heavy wildfire smoke in the area. These conditions could potentially jeopardize the health and well-being of participants and volunteers. Unfortunately, the event will not be rescheduled this year.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Bishop Field Office, in coordination with the Inyo National Forest Mammoth Lakes Ranger District, has approved a proposal by Ormat Nevada Inc. to conduct a 30-day flow and injection test of two existing geothermal wells, expected to begin Aug. 21, near the town of Mammoth Lakes, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: A Lima woman was indicted for having a large amount of carfentanil, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2017
News Release: Two Miami-Dade brothers pled guilty in federal court, on July 28, 2017, for their involvement in a drug trafficking scheme.
